The opening chapter describes the lives of farm owners dealing with the drought in Oklahoma along with a dust storm. ... In chapter three, some symbolism is noticed in a turtle that has great difficulty crossing the highway, foreshadowing the journey in the next chapter. After meeting Jim Casy in chapter four, they finally reach the Joad farm that has been deserted and damaged. ... Highway 66 is the main road to California and is filled with migrants, or in other words, "a path of people in flight (128)." ... At sundown on the first day of travel, the Joads turn off the road to camp for th...

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They talk about how the turtle attempts to cross the road, and he is nearly crushed twice by passing motorists, and is flung off the road by a motorist who tried to squash the turtle in its tracks. ... The turtle struggles to cross the street while looking in the eyes of failure from the motorists who tried to knock him off the road and the motorist who succeeded in knocking him off the road. ... (Steinbeck) We see many examples of this, and one is in chapter 15 at the truck station. ... Then we look at chapter 17 and we see the person at the car dump giv...

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They talk about how the turtle attempts to cross the road, and he is nearly crushed twice by passing motorists, and is flung off the road by a motorist who tried to squash the turtle in its tracks. ... The turtle struggles to cross the street while looking in the eyes of failure from the motorists who tried to knock him off the road and the motorist who succeeded in knocking him off the road. ... (Steinbeck) We see many examples of this, and one is in chapter 15 at the truck station. ... Then we look at chapter 17 and we see the person at the car dump giv...

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Steinbeck describes how the dust bowl developed and pushed the farmers out of the western plains states in the first few chapters of the book. ... The "Okies- from the dust bowl became the prey of others along the road to California. ... People along the road to California saw the "Okies- as poor, migrant beggars and thieves. ... In chapter 13, the family dog gets run over by a car, an event that foreshadows the death of Grandpa Joad. ... The Joad family was just one of many that lost family members along the road. ...

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The combination of the two disastrous events led to more than 450,000 people who would eventually be forced to take the road in search of employment. ... In chapter fourteen, in one of the intercalary chapters the narrator asserts that humans are "unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe... Both texts are written with intercalary chapters. ... Battle Hymn of the Republic The Grapes of Wrath is structured in three parts: the time at the origin of their journey, in the midst of a heavy drought; the time on the road; and the time in California where the novel ends. ...

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Crooks was scornful "I see hundreds of men come by on the road an" on the ranches with their bindles on their back an" that same damn thing in their head." ... The chapter ends as it began: "Crooks sat on his bunk and looked at the door for a moment, and then reached for his liniment bottle. ...

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Also, in The Grapes of Wrath has alternative chapters expressing personal commentary on the general state of America and gives in The Grapes of Wrath a much more encompassing feel; rather than just an isolated view of a Californian work camp, it shows a mass migration of Okies as well as the people who despise them. ... In one such alternate paragraph Steinbeck talks of the turtle struggling to cross the road as a figurative bond between the transients trying to go out west to California, and it exemplifies Steinbeck's usage of simple, but powerful metaphors. ...

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In the first chapter John Steinbeck tells us about George and Lennie thinking about the future and filling their minds with happiness. ... "I seen hundreds of men come by on the road and on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an" that same damn thing in their heads. ...

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